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| Jan 27th, 2008 04:13 PM | ||
| executioneer |
pub lover time travel is not a payday loan service 
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| Jan 27th, 2008 03:43 PM | ||
| Great Mighty Poo |
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| Jan 27th, 2008 01:59 PM | ||
| Pub Lover |
The problem with that is I'd be all "Screw Past me, he doesn't deserve my ten bucks!" & then Past me would be all "Screw Future me, I hope he dies!" And then Future me does die, & it was all your fault, GMP! YOU KILLED ME YOU BASTARD! Thread Derailed. |
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| Jan 25th, 2008 08:22 AM | ||
| Great Mighty Poo |
I prefer the Bill & Ted philosophy of time travel. Get yourself a time machine then just keep 'reminding' yourself to do things at some point in the future. As long as they are done at some point in your life they would happen instantly. Such as... "Wish I had 10 bucks... Oh yeah, I'll just wait till I get payed next week and go back and sneak a quick 10 spot behind the sofa... Gotta remember, gotta remember... Ah here it is. Thanks a bunch, me." |
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 05:38 PM | ||
| Pub Lover |
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:49 PM | ||
| executioneer | maybe it was something like that, i think i heard it on the radio and maybe the geniuses behind the mic misinterpreted what they were reading | |
| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:45 PM | ||
| MetalMilitia |
IIRC this documentary talks about using light for sending messages through time in some fashion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWnoMaSgYPY Though I think it's mostly lies. |
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:42 PM | ||
| Tadao | i don't know. there are refrences to some studies. http://www.physicsforums.com/archive.../t-147946.html | |
| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:29 PM | ||
| executioneer |
it was back i guess it's possible i imagined it?
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:24 PM | ||
| Tadao | so someone claims to have moved light back in time? or forward? | |
| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:20 PM | ||
| executioneer | no but that is cool too! | |
| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:01 PM | ||
| MetalMilitia |
You might be thinking about this: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...rt-061005.html |
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 10:46 AM | ||
| executioneer |
i can't find the damn thing now GOOGLING SKILLS WHERE HAVE YOU GONE
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 09:20 AM | ||
| Tadao |
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| Jan 23rd, 2008 04:07 AM | ||
| executioneer |
didn't they already get a beam of light to arrive at its destination before it left in an experiment could they use this to communicate... with the past 
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| Jan 22nd, 2008 09:37 PM | ||
| Colonel Flagg | Suggested reading: "Timemaster" by Robert L. Forward. It deals with many of the very questions raised in this thread, in an engaging and compelling narrative. | |
| Jan 22nd, 2008 07:59 PM | ||
| Fathom Zero | Not strictly time travel, but speaking of multiple universes, I figured out a way to make Maxwell's Demon feasible. | |
| Jan 22nd, 2008 07:49 PM | ||
| Sethomas | Time travel to the future is quite a bit easier than into the past. All you have to do is manipulate your frame of reference so that it observes time pass slower than your surroundings. It's extremely minute, but if you actually go jogging for a few minutes rather than sit still then you will have actually observed more time to have passed because of time dilation. (Your mental "watch" will tick billionths or whatever of a percent slower than the stationary world, so when you stop jogging, you are further into the future than if you remained stationary.) | |
| Jan 22nd, 2008 07:35 PM | ||
| Dr. Octogonopus | The way I understand it, it's technically possible to travel backwards in time. It would just take immense amounts of energy, more than can be created from all the earthly materials. But, it is impossible to travel forwards, because it does not exist yet. So, in a way, if you had perfected cryogenics, you could put yourself in cryo, hope you get revived, and eventually go back into your proper timeframe. But it would be waaay more trouble than it's worth. | |
| Jan 15th, 2008 12:58 PM | ||
| Tadao |
Because in order for there to be a past to go to, the future must happen. Or I guess the now works, but still... even if you went back in time this second to do something in the past, your past would have known you did something unless you went up to yourself and told yourself that you did that. But you might not for some reason, so your past might not know what you did until the future. I guess you could go find the past you and tell yourself about your antics, but you didn't obviously. |
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| Jan 15th, 2008 09:06 AM | ||
| bigtimecow | wait, why would i have to wait til the future to find out what i did? | |
| Jan 15th, 2008 04:59 AM | ||
| Tadao |
But you would have to wait till the future to find out that you went to the past to do whatever you did. Unless you saw your future self do it or someone told you that they saw you do it. In either case, you wouldn't believe your own eyes or the person telling you the story. So how again do you know that time travel to the past can't happen? |
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| Jan 15th, 2008 03:33 AM | ||
| bigtimecow |
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but yeah, i know now for sure that time travel to the past is completely impossible because of the whole anything that you do back then would have already happened. |
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| Jan 14th, 2008 04:52 PM | ||
| Pub Lover |
The math to find the perfect universe would consume your entire life. In progressive time you can kill your ancestors, cause yourself to unexist but not undo events that resulted in that situation as those events did happen in a non-time element, which is really just multiverse craziness badly thought out. |
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| Jan 14th, 2008 04:37 PM | ||
| Esuohlim |
With that theory and some higher dimensions, maybe instead of going back in time and altering the future you could instead just skip ahead straight to the altered future and save some trouble.
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